SportsTech Stars: History

History
SportsTech was founded by the Fowlkes Family with the improvement of young baseball/softball players in mind. Our purpose is to offer a unique player development program which is taught by knowledgeable instructors with solid youth experience. Through exposing the young player to these type instructors, the participant will be able to draw from their knowledge of the sport to become better ballplayers.
    The Fowlkes have been actively involved in the sports of baseball and softball for four generations.
    Buddy Fowlkes, President of SportsTech, has coached youth and summer league teams for over 40 years. His son, Brent Fowlkes, pitched on scholarship at the University of West Alabama at Livingston. During the summer, he pitched in the Valley League for Harrisonburg, Virginia.
    Eddie Fowlkes is the Varsity Baseball and Cross Country Coach at his alma mater, Decatur High School, where he starred as a pitcher. Following two years of play at DeKalb Junior College, he began his coaching career which now spans over 30 years. His coaching career has brought him an outstanding reputation as a teacher and
motivator.
    David “Doc” Fowlkes is the Head Baseball coach at State University of West Georgia, in Carrollton. Following an All-State Career in both baseball and basketball at Decatur High School, he signed with the Cleveland Indians, later winding up his playing career in the Dodger organization.
    Jimmy Fowlkes has coached youth and summer league teams for over 15 years and is an umpire in the Greater Atlanta Umpires Association. His career at Decatur High School was followed by one year at Gordon Junior College and three years at Georgia State University. An outfielder, he was GSU’s MVP as a Junior and Captain his senior year.
    Doc Fowlkes, Sr. coached all his sons in youth and summer leagues spanning 26 years. The family baseball tradition began with his father “Hy” Fowlkes, whose 20 year pitching career (mostly in the old Southern Association) began at the age of 16. For ten years, Doc was the player-coach and director of the original DeKalb County Senior Men’s Softball Association which now has grown to over ten teams in DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties.